Oceans and Coasts

Swachh Bharat Mission reduced groundwater contamination: UNICEF

A citizen science project led by UNSW engineers in Sydney, Australia is leveraging thousands of crowd-sourced photos from social media, helping create new insights into how beaches respond to changing weather and wave conditions, and extreme storms – and now a new study has shown the program to be nearly as accurate and effective as professional shoreline monitoring equipment.

At most inter-state boundaries, Ganga's faecal coliform level exceeds limit

New Delhi, May 28 (India Science Wire): An international team of scientists has unearthed ancient rock samples from the seabed near Laxmi Basin located on the western margin of the Indian continental plate. An analysis of these samples shows that the evolution of the northern Indian Ocean was far more complex than previously thought.

Odisha's ecological hotspots severely affected by cyclone

Cyclone Fani, strongest to hit India in 20 years, causes widespread destruction in Odisha

Water level in India’s major reservoirs and river basins in a precarious state: CWC

Ganga laden with high proportion of antibacterial agents: Study

Central Monitoring Committee formed to ensure pollution-free river stretches

The garbage crisis is not only invading Indian cities, but coasts as well, and the problem is assuming grave proportions. The incident in early June this year that saw nearly 120 tonnes of trash washed ashore on Juhu beach in Mumbai exposed the high levels of pollution that the Indian coasts are subjected to.